At 10:02 PM -0500 10/29/01, Jon Price wrote: > Hi, > > We want to run pop on a Solaris 8 system. > And we want to copy mail from an older, pop/Solaris 6 system to this > newer system. > > We have some questions related to this... > > Do you know whether qpopper (4.x I guess?) > runs on Solaris 8?
It should be fine. > > Is pop included with Solaris 8? > > If not, where is the best place to get pop for solaris 8? > Sun's shareware/freeware site? > Or Qualcomm? <http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/>. > > Is the pop program at Sun' shareware site the same as the one at > Qualcomm's site? > > We currently run an older version of qpopper on a Solaris 6 mail server. > And we would like to copy that mail to the new Solaris 8 server > periodically. The Solaris 8 mail server act as a warm backup for now. > Are there any potential compatibility problems we might run into if the > mail spool files are copied from the older version system to the newer, > Solaris 8/latest pop, based system? There shouldn't be any compatibility issues (the spool file format hasn't changed), but be sure to lock the spool (using dot-lock) before copying it. You don't want to copy a spool that's being updated by Qpopper or the local delivery agent. Also, if you're upgrading from an older version of Qpopper it's a good idea to read through the Administrator's Guide to see what's new, and decide how you want to set things up.
